Quote#Wisdom
I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story — I was,…
Quote byLewis Carroll · 1832–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Preface.
English (original)
I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story — I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it — but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern.
— Lewis Carroll
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